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Alan Messer. A Look Back Across 75 Years. Heroes Are Born…. 1934. 1935. Which means Pabi is older than…. 1. Alan Messer. 1937. The American Contract Bridge League was founded. Alan Messer starts first bridge-playing street gang. Joe Louis Defeats Max Schmeling. 1938.
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Alan Messer A Look Back Across 75 Years
Heroes Are Born…. 1934
1935 Which means Pabi is older than… 1 Alan Messer
1937 The American Contract Bridge League was founded. Alan Messer starts first bridge-playing street gang.
Joe Louis Defeats Max Schmeling 1938 Don Budge the first man to compete in all four Grand Slams. Pictured here with his practice partner. (Don hated to lose.)
1939 Due to availability of these other forms of entertainment, France uses guillotine in public for last time.
1940 Alan discovers tennis… Chicago Bears defeat Washington Red Skins 73 to 0. Most lopsided score in NFL history.
1941 Joltin’ Joe hits in 56 consecutive games. Alan decides he likes the Cardinals… Alan suggests shortening the name…
1943 Leonard Bernstein’s first broadcast conducting NY Philharmonic. Alan doesn’t come down for dinner that night…
1946 Bikini’s Sold for First Time. A-Bomb tested at Bikini Atoll.
1952 Alan graduates from Phillips academy in Andover, Massachusetts. Pabi attends his first year at Bowdoin College.
1954 Alan serves his country in Japan…
1956 Pabi graduates from Bowdoin College…
1958 Pabi After completing the season at 9-3, the Giants lost to the Baltimore Colts, 23-17, in the first sudden death overtime in an NFL championship game. That game has been referred to as, "The Greatest Game Ever Played
1970-1976 Alan Messer, U.S. Open Umpire…
1973 (We couldn’t find anything for this date so we googled “Alan Messer” and discovered his experimental years.)
1959 Alan, blissfully unaware of what the coming years will bring…
1960, 1962, 1965 Alan’s children: Geoff, Nick, and Diana are born
The 1970s… “I can’t figure this out, Tom. Ms. Penny, call Alan Messer…”
1978 Bill Rogers Alan Messer
2000s Pabi pondering the new millennium…
Alan posing for the AT&T ad campaign… (apparently he missed the dress rehearsal)